3 Ways to Save Energy This Summer with Smart Home Technology
Want to Minimize Your Energy Usage While Staying Cool?
Texas summers mean heat—and a lot of it. With temperatures often reaching triple digits, it’s nearly impossible to get through the season without the air conditioning switching on multiple times an hour - even at night! But as everyone knows, cooling costs can accumulate on your monthly electric bills while harming the environment.
What can one do? Sweltering at home to be eco-friendly isn’t a practical option. But when you own a smart home system with technology like Lutron shades, smart thermostats, and automated lighting, you’ll instantly save energy while keeping cool.
If you’d like to optimize your Highland Park, TX home’s energy usage year-round, learn how smart home technology can help below. And to implement these solutions, contact Texadia Systems here.
SEE ALSO: Which Lutron Shades Solution Is Best for Your Home?
1. Block the Sun with Motorized Shades
Motorized shades, blinds, and drapes are a smart option to maintain a cool indoor temperature. Lutron manufactures stylish motorized shades that, when integrated with natural light and heat sensors, will lower just as the sun strikes your windows. You can also schedule shades to work around your routine, or you can lower window treatments remotely with a tap on your phone.
While you may think to yourself, ‘I can just lower my shades manually,’ there’s a slim chance you’ll pull down and raise the blinds several times a day. Automated shades make it easy to automatically block hot UV rays and keep rooms cool, so you won’t have to crank the AC several degrees lower.
2. Automate Lighting & Other Technology
You can take energy savings further by syncing sensors to your home’s indoor and landscape lighting. On your smart home interface, you can manage when and where lights activate, and motion sensors will tell lights to turn off in long-unoccupied areas. Even technology like outdoor speakers or ceiling fans can turn off automatically if the area’s long been vacant. Every device can intelligently work together to help you maintain a resourceful lifestyle.
3. Install Smart Thermostats & Temperature Sensors
When smart thermostats are connected to your home controller, you don’t have to wait until you’re home to turn on the AC. Nor do you have to keep it on all day! From your smart home app, you can remotely turn on the HVAC system before you head home, so the house is chilled and ready for you. If you forgot to turn the system off? Take out your phone and power it off instantly.
Smart thermostats make it easy to schedule fans and air conditioning to follow your routine, so you’re never wasting energy on empty rooms. Remote temperature sensors around the house will tell your thermostat how it feels in other areas to adjust the AC accordingly.
Ready to make your home more energy efficient—and comfortable— with smart home technology? Texadia Systems designs and installs custom smart home systems in the Highland Park and Dallas area. Contact us here for a consultation today!
